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Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System
Copyright (C) 1998 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
BSD ISSUES
1. Vivek Khera writes that BSD does nightly security scans for setuid
file changes. Setgid directories also come up on the scan when
they change. He says that setgid bit is not necessary on BSD
systems because group ownership is automatically inherited on files
created in directories. On other Un*xes, this only happens when
the directory has the setgid bit turned on.
To install without turning on the setgid bit on directories, simply
pass in the DIRSETGID variable to make, like so:
% make DIRSETGID=: install
This turns off the chmod g+s on each directory as they are
installed.
2. There is a known problem with the posixfile.py module in all
versions of Python before 1.5.2 final (the problem was /not/ fixed
in Python 1.5.2b2). This will cause errors in Mailman's locking
routines. See this message from the mailman-developers archive
which explains things in greater detail. Guido provides a patch.
http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/1999-March/001008.html
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